Russia’s COVID-19 story is one of paradoxes. Despite an underfunded public health system, new cases have plateaued since mid-May, and the country has not seen the explosion in deaths from the coronavirus that some experts predicted.
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This pictutre taken on May 16, 2020, shows an interior of a crematorium at Nikolo-Arkhangel'skiy cemetery on the outskirts of Moscow.
